A review by manwithanagenda
Contemporary Fiction 50 Short Stories Since 1970 by David Michael Kaplan, Reginald McKnight, John Edgar Wideman, Alice Walker, Kate Braverman, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Madison Smartt Bell, Rick Bass, Tony Earley, Melanie Rae Thon, Annie Proulx, Ron Hansen, Charles Baxter, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim Gautreaux, Sandra Cisneros, Stephanie Vaughn, Amy Hempel, Ethan Canin, Mark Richard, Lex Williford, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Ford, Tim O'Brien, David Leavitt, Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Amy Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, Lee Smith, Donald Barthelme, Edward P. Jones, John Barth, Raymond Carver, Susan Sontag, Michael Martone, Denis Johnson, Robert Olen Butler, Janet Kauffman, Thom Jones, Louise Erdrich, Richard Bausch, Cynthia Ozick, Junot Díaz, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie, David Gates
5.0
Need I write anything at all? Simply look at the authors collected here - the variety and quality is astounding. Tbe best of what the English language had to offer in literary short fiction from 1970 to 1999.
Are all the stories life-changing works of art that will stay with you forever?
No, but I guarantee that there is no better anthology out there coming close to this one - there is truly something for everyone here and undoubted proof of the power of the short story.
Are all the stories life-changing works of art that will stay with you forever?
No, but I guarantee that there is no better anthology out there coming close to this one - there is truly something for everyone here and undoubted proof of the power of the short story.